Van and its surroundings is an
important location in terms of geography and the defense that’s why van has been home to many civilizations and
inhabited by many people with different cultures.

Van city is one
of the important tourism centers with its cultural assets, natural beauty, local
traditions, transportation facilities
and climates offering four seasons with different beauties.

Van and the surrounding region is
very lively and moving since ancient times.

The city was oldest
residential area of the Turkmens has
been home to various ethnic groups at different times.

Van is also affected by different cultures from neighbourhood as
being a border city. A very colourfull cumulation ofcultures have
been emerged in centuries . Today the remnants , traces, marks , beliefs ,
habits and ancient structures belonging the
history of Van

White cats of Van region
Van region is famous with it's white coloured cats having two different eyes colour in each eye. When you look at a typical Van cat you will see one eye is brown and one eye is blue similar to husky dogs.